[notanzaiiswear]

Is this just the IQ debate, or "nature vs nurture", on another playing field?

It seems very obviously that some people operate on another level than others. If methods exist to boost the "normal" people to the genius level, they have not found their way into the mainstream yet.

Surely you could bog them down so that they don't perform better than the rest. You could simply only have boring software issues to solve in your company. In that sense, maybe you could get rid of the 10 times developer.

Or you could hire only very good people. But looking at the sea of developers, it seems clear that some are better than others.